Euronav Ltd is not in anyway recommending or supplying any of the
above services. Using any of the services is at your own risk and
cost.
Please remember a forecast is just one possible prediction of the
future weather pattern. Longer range forecasts will be considerably
less reliable than short range forecasts. Some of the data is fairly
'broad stroke' and will not take into account local conditions.
Which one is best ?
This all depends if you wish to pay, the cost
of your communications, and the amount of detail and data types
you need.
Free
data:
seaPro Weather routing - for this you only need wind information,
for worldwide coverage try Global Marine Networks (compressed
files - shorter download))
Purchased data
GRIB data from Meto France or the
Norwegian weather service (Europe only) offer a more comprehensive
service including sea temperatures,
wave heights, currents, smaller cells sizes etc.
These data sets tend to cover the needs of commercial applications
such as fishing.
Download the GRIB data from a weather
site (above web sites)
Download
the file to your seaPro grib file folder (typically C:\program files\euronav\seaPro2000\grib)
If the GRIB file has been zipped
you will need to unzip it. - download a copy of the WinZip utility
from any number of sites (this
is usually shareware)
If bz2 , seaPro will automatically decompress
the files for you
To use the file, open seaPro
(if not already running), select "weather" and the "weather (GRIB) from the menu.This will then allow you to pick the
GRIB file you wish to view. |
